Religion: Church & State

A considerable number of Protestants are suffering from an acute case of
papal jitters. Last week 1,600 of them, including many prominent
churchmen, issued a 450-word statement urging the Big Three to make no
"deals" whatsoever with the Vatican. Said the statement :
"Establishments of religion, however widely representative,
however exalted, have no place at the council tables of the state. ...
As a political power . . . the papacy has thrown its weight into the
scales of the present human struggle on the side of the enemies of
democracy. ....